Luke 4:18

'The Spirit of the Lord [is] upon me, Because He did anoint me; To proclaim good news to the poor, Sent me to heal the broken of heart, To proclaim to captives deliverance, And to blind receiving of sight, To send away the bruised with deliverance,

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,

In Context

17and there was given over to him a roll of Isaiah the prophet, and having unfolded the roll, he found the place where it hath been written:

19To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.'

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Cross References

Genesis 3:15and enmity I put between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; he doth bruise thee — the head, and thou dost bruise him — the heel.'

Psalms 2:2Station themselves do kings of the earth, And princes have been united together, Against Jehovah, and against His Messiah:

Psalms 34:18Near [is] Jehovah to the broken of heart, And the bruised of spirit He saveth.

Psalms 51:17The sacrifices of God [are] a broken spirit, A heart broken and bruised, O God, Thou dost not despise.

Psalms 107:10Inhabitants of dark places and death-shade, Prisoners of affliction and of iron,

Psalms 147:3Who is giving healing to the broken of heart, And is binding up their griefs.

Matthew Henry on Luke 4:15-31

Christ in the Synagogue of Nazareth; Christ Driven from Nazareth. 14 And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee: and there went out a fame of him through all the region round about. 15 And he taught in their synagogues, being glorified of all. 16 And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read. 17 And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he… Read the whole commentary →

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